Paris Day 5

Friday 11 September

Day 5 Paris

Versailles – when too much ornamentation, gold and decoration is not enough! In this amazing palace, every surface was decorated. Completely tizz wozz. The gardens, however, were so sublimely manicured, formal, with perfectly balanced spaces, avenues, groves, fountains and statuary, creating a beautiful foil to the OTT palace interiors. What a way to live, although you can see why the peasants might have gotten a bit revolutionary and thought that there was some mighty imbalance in the way things had worked out, and got up and did something about it. Perhaps Versailles could be considered a magnificent failure.

After Versailles, we slummed it back to central Paris and revisited Le Marais. We met one of the 37 master perfumers of France. He sampled a “Kevin Costner” and a “George Clooney” fragrance on Dick – fragrances of his creation – he is one of the 37 master perfumers of France. And just in case we didn’t understand, he told us again he is one of the 37 master perfumers of France. We wandered around Place de Vosges, another old palace, now in use as residential apartments. We stopped for a quiet moment in the Saint Louis church – very old – and came back to our Montmartre apartment for dinner with Karol and Michael.
Later, we strolled up to Sacre Coeur to take in the view of the sunset over Paris and of course, The Eiffel Tower, glowing beautifully and twinkling on the hour. Mary haggled with a souvenir seller and now has a number of glowing, sparkling, glittering Eiffel Towers in her case. Tizz Wozz to the max.

Our last day in Paris (this time.)